Source: American Diabetes Association
Date: June 25, 2007
Summary:
The American Diabetes Association announced the results of a small study in which patients' own cord blood stem cells reduced symptoms of their type 1 diabetes:
"In a small pilot study, transfusion of stored, autologous (i.e. the person's own), umbilical cord blood into a group of children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes appears to have reduced their disease severity, possibly re-setting the immune system and slowing the destruction of their insulin-producing cells, according to a report presented today at the American Diabetes Association's 67th Annual Scientific Sessions."
